Crescent Nix

NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Emily Lakdawalla

Crescent Nix

This is a stack of 16 images taken by New Horizons about 3 hours after closest approach. Nix's outline is very faint but clear. The resolution of this image, which has been enlarged by a factor of 3 from the original, is 310 meters per pixel, and the phase angle is 158 degrees.